11 MARCH 1911, Page 26

Cats' Cradles from Many Lands. By Kathleen Haddon. (Long- mans

and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—It is not so much the cradles that interest us as the lands from which they come and the peoples which amuse themselves by making them; and then there are the curious names by which they are called. The Torres Straits, the Red Indian Tribes, and the Eskimo are the chief authorities in this matter, and each people give characteristic names to the various forms which their ingenuity creates. We may mention with this, though it cannot be said to possess any ethnographical interest, New Games of Patience. By M. Whitmore Jones. (L. Upcott Gill. 3s. 6d. net.)